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The She Builds Peace campaign launched by Reach Out in Cameroon’s Southwest region is a global collaborative campaign to support women peacebuilders to soar, by ensuring their safety and protection, fulfilling obligations to make peace and security inclusive, and appreciating and resourcing the critical work women peacebuilders do to build a future in which all can flourish in.

In recent weeks, Buea has recorded a trend, whereby taxi drivers who operate on Monday, a day imposed by separatists as ghost town, are attacked either with guns or explosive devices.
This new trend has left observers with the impression that Buea may either be slipping back to days of insecurity or witnessing a new trend in operations meant to implement the separatists’ imposed Monday ghost towns that effectively put on hold commercial activities in the regional capital like most parts of the war-torn Anglophone regions of Cameroon.

Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ, has rounded off a three-day capacity building workshop on factoring gender and human rights in reporting the armed conflict in Cameroon’s Southwest and Northwest Region of the country.

Yaounde, Cameroon’s political capital is preparing to host ‘Festival Esemble’, which is meant to showcase the town and country’s drive to promote a communal spirit of togetherness.
The festival is billed to run from December 17 to January 2, 2022, at the esplanade of the Yaoundé 6 Council.

According to outlined objectives, the leadership retreat is expected to cultivate and begin nurturing trust among the Southern Cameroonian leaders across religious, traditional, civil society and various armed groups fighting for independence of Anglophone Regions. The retreat is also expected to come out with an agreement on a framework to enhance access to education, humanitarian aid and to uphold human rights in the crisis-hit Regions.

The Minister of Social Affairs, Pauline Irene Nguene has praised the Etombi Foundation for marching in line with the social policies of President Paul Biya by contributing positively to the future of Cameroonian Students.
Minister Pauline Irene Ngeune was talking on Friday, October 29, at Government High School, GHS Limbe.

In the compendium, the Committee to follow up the implementation of the recommendations of the Major National Dialogue notes that “Since 2016 when corporate claims morphed into civil disobedience acts in the North West and South West Regions, the government elected to address the issues raised through Dialogue. It is in this regard that ad-hoc commissions in both the educational and legal sectors were created, meetings were organised and actions taken to address the concerns presented by the corporate bodies,” it says.

Over the years, the Centre for Community Regeneration and Development, CCREAD-Cameroon, in a bid to curb the indiscriminate and unlawful exploitation of the Cameroon-Bakossi rain forest, has put in resources to protect the forest from forest depleting activities.

The Centre for Community Regeneration and Development, CCREAD-Cameroon, has successfully electrified over 1,000 households in some hard-to-reach rain forest communities in Kupe Muanenguba Division, of Cameroon’s Southwest region.

Renowned Communication Professor and pioneer Head of the Journalism and Mass Communication Department of the University of Buea, Prof Enoh Tanjong, has said he is very prepared for his new appointment as a member of Cameroon National Communication Council, NCC.